- 1. The Sexy, Feminist History of Fishnet Tights
- (Style)
- ... Shortly thereafter, with the rise of pin-up and print porn in the 1950s, fishnet stockings were seen on such iconic sex symbols as Bettie Page and Jayne Mansfield. The ‘50s also saw fishnets becoming a ...
- Created on 14 February 2023
- 2. 'Abbott Elementary''s Sheryl Lee Ralph Makes History with Super Bowl Performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ...
- (TV)
- ... Voice and Sing” as an unofficial Black anthem in 1917. The song was used “as a rallying cry during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.” The NFL has included “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before ...
- Created on 13 February 2023
- 3. 7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
- (Movies)
- ... Max. The United States vs Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” singer Billie Holiday, played here by Andra Day, did not have a simple or straightforward path to stardom as a singer in the 1950s. Although ...
- Created on 30 November 2022
- 4. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
- (TV)
- ... 1950s, including the Mattachine Society–an early secret organization for LGBT activists. Police entrapment and prosecution under anti-sodomy laws through the 1970s left many queer people feeling hunted ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 5. Hillary Clinton's New Podcast "Gutsy" Profiles Women Who Inspire: Our Top 10 Pop Culture Picks For Fa
- (Living)
- 1. Don’t Worry Darling This psychological thriller directed by and featuring Olivia Wilde and starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Nick Kroll, and Chris Pine, revolves around a 1950s housewife living ...
- Created on 07 September 2022
- 6. We All Stan A Flowy Caftan
- (Style)
- ... long, robe-like garments kept people in hot climates looking elegant and feeling cool. Later, starting in the 1950s, high-couture houses like Dior and Halston brought their own wildly patterned, colorful ...
- Created on 05 July 2022
- 7. Diane Coffee's New Album, "With People" Combines Folk-Rock and Dream Pop, and The Results Are Masterful ...
- (Music)
- ... is a retro 1950s Pop ballad which tells a tale of a school yard bully from the abused child’s perspective who’s had enough sharing “I just can’t take anymore.” “Forecast” is pure Pop in the same vein of ...
- Created on 25 April 2022
- 8. “Lucy and Desi," Amy Poehler's New Documentary About TV Pioneers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Is An Intimate Look Into An Early Power Couple's Private Life ...
- (Movies)
- ... and two gatekeepers who were not typical of the 1950s,” Poehler told Elle Magazine. “They were a very modern couple: a white woman and a Cuban American and recent refugee who changed the game. They took ...
- Created on 07 March 2022
- 9. Mackenzi Lee Breaks the Rules When It Comes to Personal Style
- (Style)
- ... to be a skirt and a traditional 1950s silhouette. The last couple of years for me have really been about challenging my own preconceptions about what I am allowed to wear. Who are your biggest fashion ...
- Created on 22 February 2022
- 10. Joan Didion and Me: How the Writer's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" Showed Me The Power of a Woman's Voice, in the Literary World and Bey
- (Feminism)
- ... heavy emotions, and as a teenage girl I didn’t have the words to express any of it. I grew up in a family of submissive women and dominant, opinionated men. The values of ‘1950s housewife’ had ...
- Created on 11 January 2022
- 11. Zendaya Honored as Youngest Recipient of CFDA Fashion Icon Award
- (Style)
- ... Anya Taylor-Joy (@anyataylorjoy) The Queen’s Gambit star channeled 1950s vintage in a royal purple Oscar de la Renta blazer mini dress, paired with a leopard print cap and gloves. Taylor-Joy has ...
- Created on 12 November 2021
- 12. Social Media Influencer Bretman Rock is the First Openly Gay Male Model to Take it All Off on the Cover of Playboy Magazine
- (Blog)
- ... founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, magazine publisher and glorified pimp, Playboy was considered a progressive pornographic publication, at that time, for defyed the 1950s anti-obscenity laws. Playboy’s first ...
- Created on 07 October 2021
- 13. The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
- (Movies)
- ... Marilyn Monroe, and Jayne Mansfield the “Three M’s” in the 1950s. Hollywood’s “It” girls, they were considered the cream of the honey-haired crop. But while her peers would go on to die tragically in ...
- Created on 08 September 2021
- 14. Black Canary Spinoff in the Pipeline with Jurnee Smollett Reprising Role in the DC Films Sequel. Misha Green of Lovecraft Country Set to Write
- (Movies)
- ... created critically acclaimed, but short-lived HBO show Lovecraft Country. The sci-fi show set in the segregated,1950s American South, also featured Smollett as Letitia Lewis, who's on a journey in search ...
- Created on 23 August 2021
- 15. New Biography of Warhol Superstar, Nico, Explains It All: BUST Review
- (Books)
- ... a teen she grew into a great beauty which proved to be Christa’s ticket out. In the mid 1950s, after being discovered by an agent for a large German department store, Christa began runway modeling at the ...
- Created on 10 August 2021
- 16. You Can Enjoy the Kitschy Glamour of Tiki Cocktail Culture without the Gnarly Colonial Aftertaste
- (Eat Me)
- ... being presented to them wasn’t genuine, but entirely made up. The siren call of Tiki only became more seductive in the post-World War II era of the 1950s. Nostalgic for their days stationed in the South ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 17. For Centuries, Some Asian Women Have Chosen to Live Communally, Preferring to Take Care Of Each Other Rather Than Rely On Men
- (Living)
- ... of keeping an old woman and providing her with a funeral.” These are just some of the reasons women in 1950s Singapore gave British anthropologist Marjorie Topley for living in zhaitang, or “vegetarian ...
- Created on 17 May 2021
- 18. A Fragmented Fisher- The Views That Feed Into the Memory of the Iconic Carrie Fisher
- (Movies)
- ... write something like Wishful Drinking. Via Star Wars press photos Fisher was born into the spotlight. Her parents, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, were mega-stars in the 1950s and ‘60s. Before Eddie ...
- Created on 04 May 2021
- 19. The Impossible Task of Keeping Up With The Kardashians' "Perfect" Beauty and Body Standard
- (Living)
- ... 1950s, women have been hurting themselves physically and emotionally to measure up to the superficial expectations of their time for generations. Still, with the invention of photo-editing software and ...
- Created on 13 April 2021
- 20. Rachel Brosnahan Dishes on Why Midge Maisel Isn’t a Feminist and How She Manages Acting As an Introvert: Exclusive BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... what 1950s housewives were like, there was a lot of drinking, and not a lot of water,” Brosnahan says, laughing. Greta Constantine Top; Larissa Moraes Earrings. Brosnahan grew up in Highland Park, ...
- Created on 07 April 2021
